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Stellar Places

Description

Stellar Places is an intuitive plugin for easily creating, managing and displaying locations using Google Maps.

How?

Using this plugin is simple:

Install the plugin

Activate the plugin

In the WordPress admin, click on ‘Places’

Click on ‘Add New’ and create a new place.

Once you have added a new place, you will be able to access the listing view and single location view, both of which will automatically have maps associated with them. If you wish to insert a map in a custom location, just use the [stellar_places_map] shortcode (see FAQ section for more details).

Why?

There are plenty of Google Maps plugins for WordPress, but very few actually use custom post types to manage locations. Additionally most don’t have a simple and intuitive interface. Let’s take a look at some use cases where Stellar Places shines:

Store Locator – If you own a business that has multiple physical locations, this plugin will automatically feature a list of all store locations as well as provide a page for each store location, which is good for local SEO.

Local Events – If your organization sponsors or holds local events, this plugin makes it easy to display them all on a map, or even display subsets based on categories.

Let us how know how you are using Stellar Places!

Features

Live map preview

Drag and drop marker relocation

Location pages for better SEO

Unlimited locations and maps

Mobile friendly, responsive maps

Easy map embeds via shortcode

Clean, well written code that won’t bog down your site

Upcoming Features

If there is a feature or integration that you are interested in, please let me know. What I build will be entirely based on what my users need, so let your voice be heard by using the support forum or creating a new issue on GitHub.

How can I customize the content that appears on the single location pages and on the post type archive page?

The Stellar Places plugin uses templates to control what appears in these areas. By default, the templates used are found in the /includes/templates directory of the plugin. However, in your theme you can create a /stellar-places directory and, if present, the plugin will load templates from there instead. If you wish to customize the templates found in the plugin, just copy the files over to your theme and then start editing!

Can I customize the content in the popups that appear when clicking on map markers?

Absolutely. There is an /includes/templates directory in the plugin that contains a file called info-window.html. This file contains all of the code used to render the content of the popups. You can create a /stellar-places directory in your theme and copy over the info-window.html file and edit it to fit your needs. The file uses the Underscore.js template engine and is a client-side template.